Strictly’s Rose Ayling-Ellis

Issue 1496

Strictly’s Rose Ayling-Ellis

Rose Ayling-Ellis

In her first major interview since lifting the glitterball trophy, the Strictly Come Dancing champ tells us how she plans to use her new platform to revolutionise life for the deaf community, starting with supporting a new Bill to make BSL an official language.

Sir Kenneth Branagh

In a Letter To My Younger Self, he talks about how his early years growing up in Northern Ireland shaped everything about his future – including his new Oscar-tipped film Belfast.

Also inside

  • The ex-vendor turned fast fashion mogul, a defence of the worst places to live and more news, views and miscellany in The Dispatch
  • Five new laws coming in 2022 you need to know about and how they could impact your life
  • John Bird on why anxiety is the logical response for the problems we face
  • A Vancouver vendor’s banana bread smoothie recipe and how China built the sun in a lab in our Global Roundup
  • Is the government finally fixing the cladding scandal almost five years after Grenfell?
  • The remarkable story of the man who founded the Red Cross
  • How to get financially fit in the new year
  • Bristol vendor Damian Davies says he’s lucky to be alive and his hopes for the year

Plus much more!